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Guido Crosetto, Italy’s cack-handed Defense Minister, has managed to outdo himself, even by the farcical standards of Italian politics, where buffoonery is not a bug but the system’s defining feature. Dispatching the Virginio Fasan—a…

This week’s parshat Vayelech begins with an intriguing statement from Moses;

Moses went (וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ) and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one…

I created this as a way to provide a teaching on Tashlich.

As the congregation gathered by the water’s edge for tashlich, one by one, people stepped forward to cast away their sins.

The first person reached into a bag and scattered bird…

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Original Sin

Our Gemara describes the offerings that the nesi’im brought when the Mishkan was inaugurated as Chattas Nachshon. Even though all the nesi’im brought this sacrifice, it was named after Nachshon, the Nasi of Shevet Yehuda Continue Reading

“Jeremiah declares: ‘They have built altars to burn their children with fire as offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor did I speak it, nor has it arisen in my thought.’

‘Which I commanded not’ – this refers to Mesha the…

With immense gratitude for a gift from my mother on Rosh Hashana, I had the opportunity to read the Vayelech section in the new Rabbi Sacks ZT”L Chumash.
It contains a beautiful and profound idea about leadership, which I’d like to share,…